Today is Document Freedom Day, the international
day to celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards. On this
occasion, we would like to reflect on the importance for public
institutions in general, and for the European Commission in
particular, considering its leadership role, of using Open Standards
in all their digital communication and services.

On March 25 is this years Document Freedom Day and,
depending on your time zone, it has already started. Document Freedom
Day is the global campaign for document liberation by local groups
throughout the world. So far more than 50 groups registered their events
in over 25 countries ranging from Asia, Europa, Africa, to South and
North America.

… Nicolas Dietrich! The election period for this year's Fellowship
GA seat has ended on March 13, 2015. FSFE is proud to have had three
outstanding candidates that were running for office this time. Now,
Nicolas Dietrich is happy to take over the GA's Fellowship seat from
former representative Heiki "Repentinus" Lõhmus.

Currently, there is uncertainty in Switzerland regarding
the development and release of Free Software by public contractors. The
trigger for this was the development and release of the software OpenJustitia
by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. The federal council now wants to examine
whether the publication of Free Software by the federal administration can be
explicitly allowed. The Free Software Foundation Europe demands a clarification
so that publicly-financed software can unambiguously be legally released as
Free Software